Who it's for
Three plants, or forty plants and a dog
Kounts Care is one app for everything alive in a home. Here is every kind of household it fits, what setting each one up looks like, and the cases where it honestly is not the right choice.
In review with Apple · iPhone, iOS 26 · Five profiles free when it lands
The premise, in one paragraph
Plant apps and pet apps both exist and some of them are very good. What none of them can do is see the whole room. A plant app does not know you have a cat, so it cannot tell you the plant you just bought is dangerous to her. A pet app has no idea what is on your windowsill. Kounts Care holds both, which makes one genuinely new thing possible and makes a lot of ordinary things simpler, because there is one list instead of two.
Find the house that looks like yours
Each of these goes into what setup actually looks like, and what tends to go wrong.
Watering
Watering reminders
The two ways people kill houseplants are forgetting for a month and watering on a fixed schedule all winter. This fixes both.
Cats and plants
Cat owners
The awkward truth about cats and houseplants is that the cat gets everywhere, and a lot of popular plants are on the toxic list.
Dogs
Dog owners
Nobody forgets to feed the dog. What people forget is that the flea treatment was due nine days ago.
Beginners
New plant parents
You were given a plant. You do not know what it is called and you are already slightly worried about it.
Going away
Holidays and sitters
The care instructions you type at the gate are the worst version of the information you have, and they are the version your sitter gets.
Households
Sharing with the family
The failure is never that nobody cares. It is that two people water the same fern and neither touches the other one.
Big collections
Large collections
Somewhere around fifteen plants, remembering stops working and the collection starts running you.
Several animals
Multi-pet homes
With one pet you remember. With three, the flea treatments drift apart and you stop being sure which one is due.
What it actually tracks
For plants
- Species identified from a photo, with the botanical name and family
- Light, humidity range, temperature range and soil pH per species
- Intervals that stretch through winter from your real daylight
- Growth photos with a ghost-guide overlay, and timelapse films
For pets
- A profile per animal, with its own intervals and its own history
- Weights and measurements recorded over time
- A PDF care history to take to an appointment
- Archive and memorial flows, so a profile is never simply deleted
Every feature, explained properly
Including what each one costs, and where it stops.
Plant identification
Point the camera, get a care plan
Toxicity warnings
It knows your plants and your pets
Seasonal watering
Less water in winter, without thinking about it
Household sharing
One list, everyone in sync
Sitter links
Going away? Send a link
Growth log and timelapse
Watch a year in four seconds
Widgets and Siri
The task you need, without opening anything
Vet-ready care history
Everything you did, in one PDF
Where Kounts Care is the wrong choice
Every app page should have one of these, and most do not. If you are in one of these situations, something else will serve you better.
You want to know why your plant is dying
Kounts Care does not diagnose. It has no symptom checker and does not analyse a photo of a sick leaf. Planta and PictureThis both do, and if that is the need, one of those is the answer.
You need a proper medical record for an animal
It records the care you gave and exports it as a PDF. It is not a clinical record and does not replace your vet's notes. For an animal with a complex health history, a dedicated pet health app like 11pets goes far deeper.
You are not on a recent iPhone
It is iPhone only and requires iOS 26 or later. There is no Android app, no iPad app, no Mac app and no Apple Watch app in version 1.0.
You want a plant community
There is no social layer, no feed and no forum, because there is no account system to build one on. Greg has an active community and that is a real reason to use it.
You have three plants and no pets
Honestly, Apple Reminders will do. Set up three repeating reminders and save yourself an install. The app starts earning its place when the collection grows, the seasons matter, or there are animals in the house.
Start with five, free.
Five profiles cover most homes, they are shared across the whole household, and every toxicity warning is included.
See also: Compare the alternatives · Toxic plants A to Z · Pet-safe houseplants